I live in Bali, an Indonesian island overflowing with beauty and creativity. Suffused in nature’s abundance, the people of Bali have developed unique and creative ways of mirroring this through their arts. Some examples are: painting, music, dance, sculpture, architecture, weaving, Batik design ...

Throughout the whole of human history one of the recurring themes is the debate over ‘Good’ vs ‘Evil.’ At different times and in different places, the faces of Good and Evil change but the primary question remains ever present; why this constant tug of war between these two forces? What is it in...

“This very place, the Lotus Paradise, This very body, the Buddha.” - Zen Master Hakuin With these words, the great Zen Master Hakuin, interpreted the Heart Sutra in its most exquisite and refined form. In doing so, he also gave a mystical transmission, which sums up all spiritual teachings ...

There comes a point in every woman’s life when the body quietly begins to rewrite its own rules. The rhythms that once felt predictable start to shift, often before we notice, and the world offers little guidance on how to navigate it. For generations, women’s midlife biology has been misunderst...

Milarepa began in darkness. Trained in sorcery, he called down storms to kill the relatives who stole his family’s home. Dozens died, and instead of peace, he found only dread. He had avenged his mother, but condemned himself. What came next was a need to burn through the consequences he had set...

"Here in this body are the sacred rivers Here are the sun and the moon As well as all the pilgrimage places I have not encountered another temple As blissful as my own body" - Saraha Doha  The Body is Divine Part of the work of Tantra is to honour each sense as a gateway into expanded c...

Ma Ananda Sarita is returning to the United States for the first time in nearly a decade. This January 2026, she will be leading a signature retreat, Tantra Transformation at a breathtakingly luxurious venue in Austin, Texas. Sarita’s visit to the U.S. comes as part of a limited trip to appear ...

Some couples have been together for 20 or 30 years and are hoping to bring the spark back into their sexual life, while others are still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship and want to enhance the element of the sacred in their union. Others may be suffering from sexual dysfunction, and...

There is a moment in love where time stops. The body trembles, the breath catches, the mind falls silent, and something vast opens inside. For centuries, poets and mystics have tried to describe this moment, the sacred pulse of orgasm, as a gateway to something divine. Ancient Tantra saw it as a...

The portal of the female Yoni deserves to be honoured in myriad ways, through the arts, research into ecstatic birthing methods, scientific study of her multifaceted attributes and in dedicated research and practice of the arts of sexual ecstasy. The sanskrit word for Yoni is Sacred Place. This ...